https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/commonwealth-seniors-health-card-income-limits-increase-from-4-november-2022 There will be a lot of applications I suspect
www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au
and so we have the March 2023 figures
2,592,695
Dec 22 was 2,576,580
age profile is this
age 66.5-69
1 July 2021 age raised to 66.5 so some people had to wait upto 6 months to become eligible after 1 January 2022...
despite this 6 month backlog, the number of recipients has been trending down (especially when approx 259,000 qualify each year by age)
every 3 month period approx 64,000 people become age eligible
December 2021 415,034
March 2022 404,040
June 2022 398,070
September 2022 394,742
December 2022 396,350
March 2023 396,775
Census August 2021 August 2016
65-69 years 1,298,460 1,188,999
70-74 years 1,160,768 887,715
75-79 years 821,920 652,661
80-84 years 554,598 460,550
85 years & over 542,342 486,845
total 4,378,088 3,676,770
total age
pensioners 2,574,643 2,556,410
Sept 2021 Sept 2016
58.8% 69.5%
so of the 701,318 extra only a net 18,233 (2.6%) have taken up age pension
and this is whats coming along!
FYI 60-64 years 1,468,097 1,299,400
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